Category Archives: News

The Cooper Gallery is delighted to announce an upcoming free exhibition, Barnsley’s Radical Collector: The Sadler Gift from Turner to Bloomsbury, which will be held from Saturday 19 July 2025, until Saturday 3 January 2026.   Barnsley’s Radical Collector: The Sadler … Continue reading →

    Thursday 10 July 2025 saw the exciting opening of a brand-new Visitor Centre at Elsecar Heritage Centre.    The new Visitor Centre is designed to help visitors uncover 250 years of Elsecar’s fascinating history and the compelling stories of the … Continue reading →

Interested in volunteering at a Georgian country house museum surrounded by 70 acres of historic parkland?  Cannon Hall Museum is looking for Visitor Welcome volunteers to help greet visitors, chat to them and answer any questions and gather their feedback. … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that Barnsley Museums has been shortlisted twice for the Family Friendly Museum Award 2025!   This includes shortlisting for:   ·                     Worsbrough Mill Museum and Country Park for Best Accessible Museum   ·                     Experience Barnsley Museum and Discovery … Continue reading →

This summer, from 22 July to 1 September 2025, Barnsley Museums is full of fun activities for families. Across five museum sites, you’ll find exciting trails, creative workshops, and sensory sessions perfect for kids of all ages.   At Worsbrough Mill, … Continue reading →

Experience Barnsley are delighted to showcase artworks created by Patricia Wroe and Peter Hardy on a new community focused gallery wall in the museum.   The team at Deangate Care Home in Mapplewell contacted the museum after discovering the artistic talents … Continue reading →

Barnsley Archives and Local Studies have an ongoing conservation programme to ensure that the 4000 collections in our custody can still be safely used by researchers many years, decades and centuries from now. The programme is a crucial part of … Continue reading →

The Grasslands Project was inspired by THE HERDS (www.theherds.org), a groundbreaking public art and climate initiative brought to life by the team behind Little Amal. Lifesize puppets of animals journeyed through cities on a 20,000km journey from the Congo Basin … Continue reading →

Barnsley Libraries and Barnsley Museums have recently been recognised as places of sanctuary and were presented with the Libraries of Sanctuary and Museum of Sanctuary awards. These awards are a fantastic achievement for their teams and recognise the support  offered … Continue reading →

Barnsley Museums is thrilled to announce a historic achievement, welcoming two million visitors in 2024-25. This is the first time, in the council’s records, that the Museums service has reached this number in a year. It beats last year’s 1.9 … Continue reading →